On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, raymond ferrari wrote: > I have a 3com 3C905-TX card(Parellel Tasking chip) with a Lucent > 40-0336-004chipset. At bootup eth0 is not being recognized. Please > explain to me what I need to do to connect up to my isp. I am using a > COM21 cable modem to connect to my isp by POP3 and SMTP. Obviously this > card is not recognized on the Debian distro 2.1 that I have just > installed. Your help is appreciated. Ray Ferrari.
The best mailing list to get user-level help on is the debian-user mailing list - debian-devel is for discussions of debian development. I have added debian-user to the Cc. (debian-devel should be removed on any reply to this :) In brief, there was an option at install time, which you may or may not have taken, to tell the system to activate the drivers for your card. According to the ethernet-howto, which is file:/usr/doc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html if you have the doc-linux-html package installed, or available on the web, the driver for your card is '3c59x'. This means that to try it out, you should type: modprobe 3c59x in some root shell. If that works, you should add the driver to your conf.modules (or /etc/modutils/something, with recent packages, but if you're using slink that doesn't apply). Hope that helps a bit, Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
